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The debate in politics centered primarily on the westward expansion of slavery, which southern elites saw as vital to the survival of their aristocratic social and economic order. Others vehemently opposed the expansion of slavery outside the South.
America experienced several expansions and contractions in economic ac- tivity between its founding and the Civil War. The Embargo of 1807 abruptly ended the export boom of the Napoleonic Wars, a recession followed the War of 1812, there was a panic in 1819, and a crisis in 1825.
Assess the distribution of wealth in the antebellum South. Describe the southern culture of honor. Identify the main proslavery arguments in the years prior to the Civil War. During the antebellum years, wealthy southern planters formed an elite master class that wielded most of the economic and political power of the region.
As slavery began to displace indentured servitude as the principal supply of labor in the plantation systems of the South, the economic nature of the institution of slavery aided in the increased inequality of wealth seen in the antebellum South.
